Quote by Joan Didion
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, a

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. – Joan Didion

Other quotes by Joan Didion

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one – Joan Didion

Category:
Envy / Jealousy
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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. – Joan Didion

Category:
Science Fiction
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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. – Joan Didion

Category:
Business
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Other Quotes from
Property
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Property

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. – Maria Edgeworth

Category:
Property

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Property

To be upset over what you dont have is to waste what you do have. – Ken Keyes Jr.

Category:
Property

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